Quiz show "21" host Jack Barry turns toward contestant Charles Van Doren as fellow contestant Vivienne Nearing looks on/photo by Orlando Fernandez: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress)(LC-USZ62-126813)

Charles Van Doren

Author of How to Read a Book

Includes the names: Charles Van Doren, Charles Van Doren, Charles Van Doran, Charles Van Doren, editor Charles VanDoren, Charles Lincoln Van Doren, Charles (editor) Vab Doren

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Title	Copies	Reviews	Ratings	Average	Median	Std. dev.
How to Read a Book	3,268	36	378	4.02	4.00	1.00
A History of Knowledge: Past, Present, and Future	753	2	86	3.59	4.00	1.01
The Joy of Reading: A Passionate Guide to 189 of the World's Best Authors and Their Works	45		3	2.67	2.50	1.43
Webster's American Biographies	36		2	4.50	4.50	0.50
The Joy of Reading	40	1	1	5.00	5.00
Breve historia del leer	1
Letters to Mother	1
Growing up in the Wild West	7
Webster's guide to American history; a chronological, geographical, and biographical survey and compendium	7
The idea of progress, (Concepts in Western thought series)	8
Growing up in the great depression	1
Letters to mother; an anthology	5

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